The Las Vegas Aces are just four wins away from the ultimate goal—again.
After winning a WNBA-record 34 games during the 2023 regular season, the Aces have steamrolled through the first two rounds of the playoffs, defeating the Chicago Sky and Dallas Wings in the minimum five games while outscoring their opponents by an average of 15.3 points per 100 possessions. None of this is unexpected for the reigning WNBA champions, who in several ways have built upon their championship-level success of last season and become the league’s newest juggernaut.
There’s just one thing standing in the way of the Aces and true “dynasty” status: the New York Liberty. Often referred to as a “super team” after assembling a star-studded lineup through multiple massive offseason transactions, the Liberty have been hot on the Aces’ tail for all of 2023, and were the only team Las Vegas lost to more than once in the regular season; the Aces and Liberty split their four-game regular-season series, and that’s not including the WNBA’s Commissioner’s Cup Championship, which New York won handily.
Ever since the beginning of the 2023 season (and perhaps even before), the Aces and Liberty have been on a collision course to meet in the WNBA Finals. That day has come. Game 1 of the…
